Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture Through Freehand Drawing

✍ Scribed by Eric J. Jenkins

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A Guide For Those Who Learn And Those Who Teach

The book is a guide for students and teachers to understand the need for, the role of and the methods and techniques of freehand analytical sketching in architecture. The presentation focuses on drawing as an approach to and phase of architectural design.
The conceptual goal of this approach is to use drawing not as illustration or depiction, but as exploration. The first part of the book discusses underlying concepts of freehand sketching in design education and practice as a complement to digital technologies. The main component is a series of chapters that constitute a typology of fundamental issues in architecture and urban design; for instance, issues of "façade" are illustrated with sketch diagrams that show how façades can be explored and sketched through a series of specific questions and step-by-step procedures. This book is especially timely in an age in which the false conflict between "traditional vs. digital" gives way to multiple design tools, including sketching. It fosters understanding of the essential human ability to investigate the designed and the natural world through freehand drawing.
The author, Eric Jenkins received several teaching awards and design awards. He is Associate Professor at Catholic University of America's School of Architecture and Planning where he teaches design, theory and analytical sketching. He earned a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and has previously published "To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans".

• Laying out sketching as a design tool
• Covers the key tasks in building design
• Easy-to-use systematic chapter structure
  

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
introduction
PART I. sketching, thinking, learning
sketching, Thinking, Learning
sketching as a Bodily skill
Learning (and Re-Learning) to Draw
Learning to Sketch Without Thinking
Practicing to Practice
sketching and Thinking
What is Analysis?
The Context-bound Position
The Autonomous Position
Formal Analysis
Context-bound Critical Analysis
Analysis from a Dynamic Intermediate Position
Not All Sketches are Equal: Syntactic Sketch Diagrams
What are Diagrams?
How are Diagrams Used?
Developing Spatial Knowledge and Material Analogies
Sketching as a Physical Analogy
sketching and Learning
what to Use and How to Use It
Tools of the Trade
Drawing the Lines
Building a Drawing
Habits to Help Development of Tool Use
Reflective Practice
SPQR
Line and Time Budgets
Drawing Types for Advanced study
Sketching in Axonometric
Putting Things in Perspective
Placing the Diagrams on a Page
The Exquisite Corpse
Collage Diagrams
PART II. DEsiGN ACTs
Introduction
Mapping the Plan
Clarifying Public/Private
Delineating Service and Served
Demarcating Profane and Sacred
Relating Materials
Filling Walls
Responding to Light
Connecting Rooms and Paths
Uniting Connections
Aligning Edges and Centers
Stitching Tartans
Shifting Geometries
Overlapping Spatial Patterns
Engaging the Landscape
Fashioning Order and Disorder
Resolving Geometries
Extracting Voids from Poché
Composing Tectonic Order
Reconciling Structure and Enclosure
Disposing Walls
Classifying Type: the Infill
Classifying Type: the Bar
Classifying Type: the Courtyard
Traversing the section
Orchestrating Sequence
Entering the Building
Passing through Buildings
Articulating Path and Room
Ascending Stairs
Stepping with the Landscape
Considering Circulation
Compressing and Expanding Sequences
Walking beneath Portals
Moving through Layers
Linking Profane with Sacred
Interfacing Public with Private
Interlocking Sections
Carving Voids
Shaping the Floor
Reinforcing with Tectonics
Expanding Atria
Sensing Scale
Reconciling Ideal and Real
Arranging Voids
Sculpting Light
Facing the Building
Revealing Tartans
Disposing Symmetry and Asymmetry
Addressing Entry
Alternating Edges and Centers
Establishing and Then Breaking Order
Diagnosing Proportional Systems
Connecting Scales
Understanding Continuity
Attaching to Context
Harmonizing Forms
Arranging Mass
Balancing Mass
Subtracting Voids/Adding Figures
Expressing Planes
Weaving Structure and Enclosure
Viewing Layers
Relating Base-Middle-Top
Topping the Building
Turning the Corner
Seeing Windows
Highlighting Shadows
Probing the Details
Finding Rooms within Rooms
Sheltering within a Room
Opening Doors
Framing Views
Shading Glass
Adjusting Panels
Incorporating Furniture
Categorizing Joints
Expressing Connections
Joining Wood
Assembling with Third Things
Aligning Seams
Changing Material
Interlocking Masonry
Organizing Geometries
Gripping the Rail
Grasping Knobs
Studying Unintended Consequences 1
Studying Unintended Consequences 2
Engaging the Context
Orienting Oneself
Discovering Lynch's Elements
Coordinating Object and Fabric
Resolving Geometries
Mediating with Shifts
Rotating and Pivoting
Screening Spaces
Lining with Trees
Layering Space
Corresponding Solid and Void
Highlighting Space in Fabric
Drawing the Nolli
Passing Laterally
Identifying Building Types
Emphasizing Types
Enclosing Urban Rooms
Informing the Street Section
Negotiating Stairs and Ramps
Strolling through Place
PART III. Holistic acts
Introduction
Typological Study of Place
Discover Artificiality
Conceptual Memory of Place
Simply Complex
Capturing Sense of Place
A Set of Partial Interpretations
Speculate on Systems
A Meditative Experience
2D to 3D
What Makes a Place Unique
Lines of Thought
Visible Guidelines
The Gem and the Setting
In Focus
Acts of Appreciation
Self-Awareness in Drawing
Encounters
The Nature of Entry and Threshold
A Holistic Journey
Conceptual and Perceptual Drawings
Appendix
Bibliography
Photo Credits
On the Author
Acknowledgements
Index of Buildings
Index of Building Types
Subject Index
Index of Locations
Index of Persons
Index of Media